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FRANKLIN IN FRANCE. HI3 WORK AS COMMISSIONER AND AS MINISTER. Nogliee’- C0 in Business Affiirs—How He Accomplished His Mission—His Popularity. From th" Philudelohia Record. John Bacli McAlaster is the writer of a very interesting paper, entitled “Franklin in France,” printed in the September Atlantic. In the beginning he alludes to the great mass of literature of which Frank lin was the author, and of its widespread popularity not only at home but abroad. His “Father Abraham's Address” is printed in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Bo hemian, Gaelic and in modern Greek, and since the ninety-seven yeai-s that have passed by since hi death no period of ten years has elapsed without anew edition of his autobiography or anew life of him ap jiearing in some of the languages of civilized men. In spite of, all tliis little is generally understood of the basis of his claims to be considered a statesman, or of his famous mission to France, Appointed one of three Commissioners to France (Lee and Deane were the other tp o), he set out for that coun try October,l77o, and landed in December at Auroy, on the coast of Brittany, whence he hastened to Nantes. There he met with a most extraordinary ovation—“such as has never since been given to any citizen of the United States” —for the report of “the shot heard round the world” had reached France, and the nation as one man took sides with liberty. At Versailles, Paris, everywhere, it was the same; he was welcomed as no foreigner had ever before been welcomed. His name and his cause were on every lip till Vergenues forbade the crowds in the coffee-houses to discuss “des inmrgens." Meanwhile the King held aloof and declined to receive the Commissioners, for he was not disposed to openly befriend America, and Deane, together with William Hodge, set on foot a privateering venture, which complicated matters, and finally ended in • the recall of Deane and the appointment of John Adams in his stead. Adams found the little company of Americans all “by the cal's,” and, although they could agree in little else, they all agreed in urging Con gress to abolish the commission and ap point one man Minister to Franco. The ad vice was taken, and Franklin was made sole Minister to France. A CONFUSED STATE OF AFFAIRS. Nor were the business affairs of the com mission in much better state than their private affairs. “Carelessness, negligence, disorder prevailed. Method and order Franklin could not acquire even in his youth. But he was now in his 73d year, had been out of business for more than thirty, and, as a consequence of age and leisure, had grown more careless and un methodical than ever. Men who came to see him were astonished to behold the weightiest papers scattered in profusion about the room. Some who knew him well ventured to protest, remiuded him that the French wero eager to know his business, that ho might in his own household have many spies, and even went so far as to sug gest that his grandson should spend half an hour a day in putting his papers to rights. To these his answer was always the same. He knew that he was in all probability sur rounded by spies; but it was his practice never to bo concerned in any business he was not willing to have everybody know, and the disorder went on. All the com mercial affairs, all treaty matters, all money matters, all the diplomatic affairs of the United States abroad, Were in the hands of the commissioners. They made loans, bought ships, paid salaries, exchanged pris oners. Vet not a note-book not a letter book, not an account-book of any kind, had beech kept.” Such a shameful disregard of the first principles of business alarmed Adams (who had been left in France without an appoint ment), and he turned himself into a drudge in his endeavor to introduce something like order into the office of the commission. He also wrote a warning letter to Samuel Adams, in which he plainly expressed his fears that Franklin so loved his ease, so hated to offend, and was so engrossed with social affeirs and other frivolous matters, that unless a Secretary who could be de pended upon should be sent to him, America would have reason to repent leaving politi cal affairs in his hands. HOW FRANKLIN ACCOMPLISHED HIS WORK. Adams' fears were unfounded, although his criticism was just. Mr. Ale .Master says Franklin was indolent, was fond of society, was unable to say yes and no. But he was, at the same time, the most original charac ter produced in America during the eigh teenth century, and he accomplished a work in France no other American could possibly have done. On the March day, 1778, when, in buokless shoes, wigless and in the plainest clothes, he made his way through a crowd of painted beauties and powdered fops to thej*presenee of the King, his position in France completely changed. On that day he ceased to be a solicitor of favor. On that day he became the recognized representa tive of the United States, and more than ever the centre of attraction at Paris. Air. Lee and Mr. Deane were mere ciphers. AVhat they thought, or did, or said, was, to the French people and the French court, of no consequence whatever. No paper ever mentioned their names. No great man ever darkened their doorways. The ear of Vergennes was never open to them till a letter from Franklin had prepared the way. This position Franklin reached in a way Mr. Adams could not understand. That a man who flung his papers all over the floor, kept no accounts, copied no letters, hated business, dined out six nights a week, and would not send away even a pestering fel low with an angry “no,” could really be serving his country well was to Air. Adams an absurdity. Mr. Adams would have lived at Paris, ignored the ®>o ple, deluged the ministers with notes, and have been well snubbed before he had been six months in France. Franklin went to Passy, lived secluded, gave the ministry no trouble whatever, and by las tact, his shrewdness, his worldly wisdom, his wit, his skill in the management of men, made himself the most popular man in France, and by his popularity overcame a reluctant minister and yet more reluctant King. This done, the rest of his work was easy. He had but to keep the good will anil love of the French people, and he kept them com pletely. TIIE WORK OF HIS PEN. Such extraordinary popularity was not, however, uumingled with contempt. One writer of memoirs describes him as "one of the grout charlatans of tho eighteenth cen tury.” Another cannot abide his table man ners, and despises him for putting butter in his eggs and eating them from a glass. A third denounces him in a long poem. Tho author of a history of a French Louse ex hausts the French language in a disgusting description of him. Of all this Franklin knew nothing, anil wont on with the busi ness of his office, which was, in his opinion, to keep tlie cause of his country betoro tho eves of tlie people of France. His homely sayings, his bon mots, his republican sim plicity of dress and manner, did much to accomplish this end. But ho loft no ex pedient whatever untried, and often had re course to his pen; wrote a dialogue between threat Britain, France, Spain, Holland, Saxony and America: a catechism relative to the English national debt, and persuaded Dubourg to make a translation of tlie con stitutions of America. Vergennes objected to their publication. The government would not give a lioetuto. But tlie book came out, anil the cause of America was more popular than ever The constitutions were described as a code that marked an op*e;li in the his tory of philosophy; as a code that richly dis served to be wail known, mid tlie men who framed them wen> prononuiaki superior to Solon and Lycurgus. THE END or HIM LA BOJW. 'Thus matters went ou until the signing of Uie treaty, concerning which an idle story has long been current, and is still believed. 1 his talo relates that when the Commission ! el 2i were all assembled and were about to amx their names to the treaty Franklin ex cused himself and left the room,and that when lie came back he was dressed in an old and i almost threadbare suit of brown. Nothing was said by the Commissioners. But their looks betrayed astonishment, and Franklin told them that the clothes he then had on were those he wore when \Vedderburne so shamefully abused him before the Privy Council. “The story,” says Air. McMaster, “is pure fable. It has not a scrap of truth )1° rest on. The incident never occurred. I Franklin never asserted it, and it was dur ing his lifetime denied, and flatly denied, by one of the officials who was present at the signing.” Another incident in his life that is com monly misunderstood is the famous Strahan letter; the letter ending: ‘"You are now my enemy, and I am yours.” The writer knows of no collection of his works and letters in which this document is not treated as a piece of spirited and sober writing. Yet it certainly was no more than a jest. Had this not been so, all friendship, all corres pondence, between the two would have ended the day the letter was received. But no such falling out took place, and they went on exchanging letters long after the war had seriously begun. With the signing of the treaty the labors of Franklin in France may be said to have ended. He continued, indeed, to act as minister till the summer of *1785, when Jefferson succeeded him. But old age was upon him, his infirmities were many, and his time was chieflv given to his friends and his pen. The work which he did in France is generally unknown, because it has never vet been fairly set forth. Borrowing money, fitting out ships, buying clothing, powder and guns, settling disputes, writing dis patches, was the least important and the least creditable part of what he accomplish ed. When he landed in France, in 177(i, neither the King, nor the ministers, nor the mass of the nobility, had any heart in the American cause. His sole support was public opinion, the most fickle and treach erous of all support. Yet he never for a moment lost it. By his tact, his knowledge of men, and the ways of men, he turned it from the wild enthusiasm of a day into downright admiration for the American people. WOMEN’S SUPERSTITIONS. Bad and Good Luck Seen in Various Signs and Portents. From the San Francisco Post. I noticed a neat, modest-looking young lady pushing her way along in the crowd on Kearny street the other day and was surprised to see so much spirit manifested by a girl of her dainty ap pearance. When she met several ladies she would crowd closely to the street edge or the wall,but when men came along she marched boldly between them. Calling the attention of another lady to her strange manner, she said: “O, I always do that, too. I understand it;.she’s superstitious.” • “How is that?” I asked. “Well, you see it brings good luck to sep arate men when you meet them, but nothing breeds misfortune so surely as to divide two women on the street.” I looked to see if she were jesting, but saw at once that a judge could not be more se rious. “And do you believe that nonsense?” 1 asked. “Why, I s’pose it’s foolish,” she answered, “but I knoiv if I ever do something happens. Now, just yesterday I was with another lady and was ashamed to turn out, and we went right between two women, and at dinner I swallowed a toothpick and come near chok ing to death.” “But you didn’t die?” I suggested. “No, but Iw'as awfully scared. ’ That evening I went to a party and tried to find out the pet superstition of each girl I danced with. And they all have them. One wouldn’t go under a leaning ladder, an other would be sure of becoming ill if she saw the moon over her left shoulder, an other would not read an epitaph for fear of losing her memory. One girl told me she could stop a dog’s howl by taking off her shoe and spitting in it. In drawing her kerchief from her bosom a narrow slip of papier fluttered to the ground on which were some hieroglyphics. “O, my charm!” she exclaimed. 1 supposed she had lost an arti cle of jewelry, and was searching about for it when she seized upon the scrap of papier as though it were a deed to a San Diego cor ner lot. My curiosity was aroused, and she explained that it was a charm insuring suc cess in undertakings, purchased by her at a great price from an Egyptian fortune-teller in Paris, and that its possession alone amounted to nothing, but it must be put into the pocket or in the bosom of a dress during the recital of an Egyptian verse. If one failed to remember" that, however, the Lord’s prayer might be subti tuted. In the midst of an waltz with one lady she suddenly paused and pressed her hand spasmodically to her upper lip. “What is it?” I asked. “I was so afraid I should sneeze,” she remarked. “I wouldn’t for anything to night.” “Why tonight more than any timer “O, it’s Friday, and ‘sneeze on Friday sneeze to your sorrow.’ And it comes true, too, if I ever do forget. Did you never hear the rhyme: Sneeze on ifond ay sneeze for danger; Ou Tuesday for a stranger, On Wednesday for a letter, On Thursday for something better. On Friday tor your sorrow, On Saturday, company to-morrow “I always try to sneeze on Saturday,’’she added naively. I have taken notes since then and I find there is not one of the sweet creatures that has not her pet superstitious whim. I have a little friend on Van Ness avenue who would go to church with her sealskin jacket wrong side out, if by any improbability she happened to get it on that way, rather'thau incur the bad luck sure to overtake tier by taking it off to change it. I know a girl on Fourteenth street, in Oakland, who becomes quite radiant when her dressmaker is obliged to rip a seam she has just sewed, as she is sure she will live to wear the garment out. I remember visiting a ranch whore bees were kept and the hostess telling me that honey was a failure that year on account of their neglecting to rap on the bee house to tell the occupants that her father hail died. “He died very suddenly,’.’ she said patheti cally, “and in the surprise and hurry and nil we forgot all aliout it until daylight, and It was too lata then, for he’d been dead four hours, and the bees must be told within the hour or you’ll lose ’em all, and sure enough we did." How the Joke Worked. From the Detroit Free Press. “I want the biggest, and best watermelon in that lot,” he said, as he surveyed a great pile of watermelons in frontof a Woodward avenue, grocery. “Yes sir—here it is—best melon I’ve seen this year.” “plug it,” was the brusque command. “Yes, sir—Splendid red core. Shall I put it on ice?” The purchaser drew from his pocket a flask of port wine and proceeded to pour the contents into the orifice. The melon readly absorbed the liquid, and when the plug was replaced the man chuckled! “He! he! he! I want that melon sent to the temperance fanatic! Say nothing, and it will lie a big joke on him.” A couple of days later the man came around to the store again and asked: “Well, the melon was sent up f” “Oh, yo." , , “And tho boy didn’t give my little plot a wav?” “Oh, no; but we heard from ft." “You did! He! he! he! What did he Hay f* 1 “He and hi* family were off up the lake, but tlie hired girl and coachman said it was tiie finest melon they ever put tooth intol” THE MORNING NEWS: AIONDAY, SEPTEAIBER 12, 1887. GAMBLING IN LEADVILLE. The Famous Mining Town of Leadvllle is Good and Bad In Spots. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Alany pieople are under the impression that Leadville is a very wicked city. This is a mistake. Leadville has its morals and its vices, and the relations between them are somewhat peculiar. It is submitted without argument that a community which sends the President of its First National Bank to the penitentiary for ten years can not be said to be withoutconsiderable moral tone. Leadville did just that with a man who had betrayed a trust, and so far has re solutely refused to join in a sentimental movement for a pardon. An assayer of good position, who had loaned his science to a conspiracy for stealing rich ore, followed the banker down the Grand Canyon and into retiremeut behind the bars. Mine offi cials and others have gone the same wav for plundering employers. The Leadville code is not an extensive one, hut justice follows swift and sure upon infractions of it. Hav ing decided to tolerate gambling Leadville does so in the most open-handed manner. Some of the best locations on the avenue are giving up to the votaries of fickle for tune. There is none of the hypiocrisy of half-drawn blinds. The doors are thrown wide opien and from the street can be seen at any time the green tablas sur rounded by the players, while the click of the chip* and the bawling of the man at the keno goose fali upon the ears of the passer-by. Gambling in Leadville is a busi ness. “Our running expenses,” said Con Feath erly, one of the proprietors of the Texas, “are $7,500 a month. When the house opened in 1879 it ran behind steadily for six months, and came pretty near going under. Then it took a turn for the better and ran ahead. If we take in $15,000 or $20,000 a month we are pretty well satisfied. That pays running expenses und leaves a margin tor profit.” Downstairs there is the bar on one side, gorgeous with its mammoth mirror and its array of cut glass. A lunch counter just across the way is also doing business On blackboards are displayed the scores of the day’s base ball games, the results of the races, and the grain and stock quotations from the East. To the right is a room with half a dozen games of faro in progress, and open to all coiners. Back of the faro room is the business office of the establishment. Then comes a long, high chamber, where a hundred men try, hour after hour, to put five buttons in a row on a numbered card, while a loud-voiced young mail whirls the goose and calls out the number on each lit tle ball as it falls into his hand. There are electric devices to show at a glance the exact number of cards taken out and the consequent pot to go to the holder of the winning card. This is keno. It is the popular game, and the noisy one as well, so the players are shut into” a big room by themselves. But faro and keno are only two of the games which the Texas provides for its patrons. Adjoining the keno room the roulette has its comer, and a pleasant-faced man whirls the wheel and the marble in op posite directions, reciting in a low well modulated voice: “Black or red, odd or even, high or low. Thirtv-five for a single number. Round and round the little ball goes. Roil it for your self if you like.” Roulette, the great game of the European resorts, is not popular in Leadville. Now and then a young clerk or a laboring man will stop and risk a dollar on the black or red, but the play is seldom heavy. The fact is, the wheel is rather under suspicion in the AVestern country. Smart gamblers have been able to fix it up by magnetism and electrical currents so that the little marble found its way too often to the single 0 or the 00, both of w'hich sweep the board for the house. Alexicans like roulette, but Ameri cans give it a wide berth. The dice table, where the dealer sits behind a monstrous box and rattles down the cubes, is better patronized. “Stud-horse poker” has some adipjxers, but straight poker is alwavs sure of a tableful. In the rooms on the first floor everybody comes and goes at will. Alen reach over each other’s shoulders to laydown their bets. Up stairs there are rooths better furnished for those who prefer to be a little more secluded. Down stairs is for the crowd. Up stairs is for the heavy betters. “The largest winning at a single setting that I remember,” Raid Mr. Featherly, after taking a few moments to consider the ques tion, "was $16,000. I recollect a big game we had one Saturday night in the front room. We had been playing all the even ing, and about 11 o’clock there was some talk of stopping. The house was out $3,500 on the game. One or two of the players started to go, but came back and said that it was snowing so that a man couldn’t see ten feet ahead of him So the game was kept up ail night, until 8 o’clock Sunday morning, and when we stopped the house was SIO,OOO ahead, besides recovering the $3,500 behind at 11 o’clock the night be fore. “These big games are sometimes affected by things which people who do not gamble would consider trivial,” continued Mr. Featherly. “We had a game going one night in the back room and the principal players were two Eastern men who had come here to buy a mine. They had drafts in their pockets for SIOO,OOO. One was a man worth $4,000,000 or $5,000,000. The betting was heavy. About 11 o'clock some of the rooms were closed. The | 'layers were into the game about $2,500. For "some rea son we moved from the back room into the front room and went oil. The players made a few bets, fidgeted about and "then quit. The moving from one room to another nail broken the charm. If we hud kept on in the back room the game would haveVun all night, probably, and $20,000 might havo changed hands. I talked to the players about it afterward, and they said that it was the change of rooms that made them stop. This may sound odd to those who don't know anything about the little influ ences w hich affect playing, but all gamblers will underecand it.” Tulmage visited Leadvilleonce, and it fell to the lot of the good Major Bohn to show him the town. “I want to see it all,” said tlie preacher, and the Major gave up two nights to tlie job. Some time after midnight of tlie second round the pair drew up in front of the hotel. “Have I seen everything!” asked the divine. “Everything,” replied the Major con scientiously. “I have 'been much instructed,” said the preacher. He had “slummed” exepsively in New York, but he admitted that Loadville could give him points. Standing on Harrison avenue und looking westward alo;v State street, the visitor has spread before him a district of a few hundred yards which contains more concentrated wickedness than any similar strip of ground on the Ameri can continent. New York not barred. Vice here displays her most hideous mien, and is rapturously embraced. Tlie locality is given up without a protest to those who inhabit it. Leadville authority only says “life and property must i,e safe here,” and further than that does not interfere. (Suppression, it is argued, would only cause the ulcer to spread and contaminate the whole city. So State street und its immediate vicinity is surrendered to tho dance house, the variety show, and the brothel, and the rest of the city is kept morally clean. Practically no limit is put upon human depravity. All night long the street is seething. Women of ail ages and nationalities and colors go in and out of the wide-open doors. Four hprse ore wagons are driven down from the mines and unloaded, fifty men at a time in front of one or another of the places of entertainment. And such an entertain ment! The huge, drastic, griping, sickening pills are fast bring superseded by Dr. Pierce’s “Purgative Pellets.” After Summer Cornea a Fall. That’s why we are slaughtering Gents’ Hummer Suite aud Furnishings. B. H. Levy 6i Bros. A NEW REPUBLIC. A Triangular Bit of Land North of the Amazon Becomes Independent. From the London Telegraph. The tract of land which lies between Brazil aud French Guiana, and which was a no-man's-land, lias lieen declared by its in habitants an independent country. The Republic of Counani, as it is called, is 24,000 miles in extent, the coast line is 187 miles long ami the population is 700 persons, one-half of whom dwell at Counani, the capital, in thirty-five houses. The bulk of these are descendants of Alaroons, or slave refugees from Brazil; but I learn from Al. Boisset, the agent of the new-fledged re public in France, that their sympathies are entirely French. In 1883 t hey begged to be annexed to France, but the French govern ment declined, in observance of a treaty en tered into with Brazil in 1841, which de clared Counani neutral soil. Repulsed but not baffled, the natives unanimously set up a republic, with a French journalist, M. Jules Gros, at its head. The other members of the govern ment are likewise Frenchmen, liv ing in France, and the French language Is rendered official in the new-born State. I have before me the first number of the official journal of Counani, styled “Les Nouvelles do France et des Col onies, Journal Offielel de la Republique.” La Gagane Imlrpendente, whose offices are at the Legation 18, Rue du Louvre, is an in teresting little penny sheet, ami is to come out twice monthly. The official column contains a decree signed at Vanves, a sub urban district, by the Life President, ap pointing M. Guignes Minister of State and Grand Chancellor of the Order of the Star of Counani. Another and older decree insti tutes the Order of the Star of Counani, of which there are to be 10 grand crosses, 20 grand officers, 30 commanders, 100 officers, and an unlimited number of knights. The star, of which I saw a colored drawing at the Legation, is undoubtedly a tasteful one. Al. Boisset tells me that after M. G ros leaves France very few decorations will be any longer given away, so that this distinction will become a very rare aud hence highly, prized one. The resources of the country consist of agricultural products, minerals, timber and cocoa, £7.000 sterling worth of which is an nually exported; India rubbtr, cotton, sai sap .rilla, tobacco, vanilla, coffee, maize, rice, potatoes, dates, guavas, pineapple , oranges, lemons, etc. Breeding horses, cat tle and sheep is also very profitable. A line of vessels will be run between Counani* and Cayenne ou one hand, and Para, in Brazil, on the other. Experience of Two Philosophic Vaga bonds. From the New York Evening Snn. Two idle men sat on a bench in City Hall Park. After getting in conversation they soon began talking of other days. “I guess we’ve done some quee r jobs in our time,” remarked one of the men, “and as it will help to pass the time I’ll tell you about a peculiar position I once held. I was hard pressed for money and went to work for an uptown florist who had de vised anew method of drumming up trade. I didn’t like the job, but I soon found that a man will often do disagreeable duties for another which nothing could induce him to do for himself. I hail to read the daily papers regularly and take down the name and address of every family in which a death had occurred. I then called upon the most likely ones, presented a mourning card bearing the name aud business of my employer, and solicited orders for funeral designs. At first owing to a lack of self-assurance, I male but indifferent success, but in the couree of time I acquired the studied solicitude of the accomplished undertaker and obtained an order at nearly every house. It was a soft snap while it lasted, but the other florists soon caught on and worked the thing to death. At one house where I tailed I found a dozen other canvassers ahead of me. My occupation was gone.” “I’ve been looking for a job all my life,” went on the next, a vigorous little man with snapping black eyes, “because it's as hard tp, s uit other people as it is to suit one self. Talk about living on one’s wits, why, I guess I*ve held more jobs than any other man in the country. It’s often said that one half the world don't know how the other half lives: and no wonder—for in a city like this, made up of all sorts and conditions of men, there are opportunities of earning a livelihood in the by ways of trade undreamt of by all except those immediately con cerned. Some time ago I got acquainted with the proprietor of a restaurant where 1 lunched. The man told me ho was being ruined by an opposition place a few doors above, the owner of which had a set of electric bells constantly ringing to attract customers. I set my wits to work and got the man to buy a parrot, which I bung up over the door. I then stood in front of the entrance and shouted ‘Hi!’ as each person passed. The thing was a great success, customers began to pour in, and the pro prietor was kept busy aniwering questions as to how he had ever trained the bird. But the opposition man got on to the racket and hired an ex-pugilist, to figure as the in sulted pedestrian. I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, and when I recovered I looked aliout for another job.” TAIN KILLER. fpierdiMorbus frajnps ' | olie jjiSirrhoe^ complaints jjYSertterY c dll Cured bya teasfloonful of PerrrDaxis Pom pil/cr in a little /dilicor Sugar and darter Au. Druggists seu.it. BROITS INJECTION. HYGIENIC, INFALLIBLE & PRESERVATIVE. Our** without addition*) trstixMK>t, all rmi( fr oltrotiio iila’hnrks of ilm urinary OryiOi #*rVrr#, / u.m'ton, yirii, took U by UruMtiita uurwutfbvul Ui tiuiaii H lioUaa. DRY CRHJUS. E'C'K ‘8 T EI N ’ SM A BOLD STATEMENT. Every one of the prices given below wore 10, 15 and in some instances 25 per cent, lower than the same goods can be bought in any other house. DRESS GOODS. M-ineh All Wool LADIES' CLOTH, in the new shades, doe. TRICOTS. 64 All Wool, new color, Tklt'OT CLOTHS, 79c. 1 FLANNELS. White, Red aud blue All Wool FI,A NTs'ELS, 37 iuches wide, 35c.; worth 50e. CANTON FLANNEL. A few bales of Bleached and Unbleached at lCc.; w orth a yard. SHEETINGS. 10-4 Unbleached, 19c.; 10-4 Bleached, 19c.; regular 35c. goods. DOYLIES. 500 dozen Checked White Damask, Colored Border and Turkey lied at sc. each. TICKS. A Mattress Tick, ti'.|e.; a Feather Tick, 12hje. TILl© Biggest; Bargain of _A_ll_ 600 do/eu GENTS' PURE LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, Hemmed and Laundriod, ready for use, at 16 2-80. E C K STEIN’S. SWIFT’S SPECIFIC. fl v jm Hk. jfl ECZEMA ERADICATED. flentlemen—lt Is dne yon to y that I think lam entirely well of eczema after navm* taken Swift's Speciftc. I hare been troubled with It very little In my face elnce lari spring; At the beginning of cold weather last fall it made a slight appearance but went away and has never returned. S. S. H. no doubt broke it up: at leaat it put my ryrtem in good condition and I got. well It also benefited my wife greatly In case of lick headache, and made a perfect •ore of a breaking out on my little three year old daughter last rummer. Watkinrvlllc, Ga., Feb. 18, 1886. 0 Ray. JAM Eh V. M. MORRIS. ftraatue on Blood aud Skin Diseases mailed free. Tim bwirc snciyio Cos., Drawer S, Atlanta. MILLINERY. KROUSKOFFS Mammoth Millinery House. We are now offering immense lines of New Straw Hats, Ribbons, Feathers, etc., which are now being shipped daily by our New York buyer, and our Mr. Krouskoff, who is now North to assist in the selection of the Choicest Novelties in the Millinery Line. It is astonishing but a fact, that we sell fine Millinery cheaper than any retail store in New York. How can we do it? Cannot tell. This is our secret and our suc cess. Perhaps on account of large clearing out purchases or perhaps from direct shipments from London or Paris—but no matter so long as the ladies have all the advantages in stock and prices. We are now ready for business, and our previous large stock will be increased, and we are now offering full lines of fine Milans in White and Colors, for Ladies, Misses and Children in an endless variety of shapes RIBBONS, RIBBONS, new novelties added and our regu lar full line entirely filled out. We knock bottom out in the price of Straw Goods. We continue the sale of our Ribbons at same prices as heretofore, although the prices have much advanced. >. We also continue to retail on our first floor at wholesale prices. 8. KROUSKOFF. IKON WORKS. KEHOE'S IRON WORKS. Broughton Street, from Reynolds to Randolph Streets, Savaim all, - - Georgia. CASTING OP ALL KINDS AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PRlOlfi. THE RAPIDLY INCREASING DEMAND FOR OUR SUGAR MILLS AND PANS T T induced uh to manufacture them on a more extensive scale than I I ever. To that end no pallia or expense has been snared to maintain W their HIOH STANARD OF'EXCELLENCE. ■ These Mills are of the BEST MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP, with heavy WROUGHT IRON SHAFTS (made lon* to prevent danger to the operator i, and rollers of the liest charcoal pig Iron, all turned up true H H They are heavy, strong and durable, run light and even, and are guaran teed capable of grinding tlie heaviest fully matured All our Mills are fully warranted for one year ■CSHitfflE'J ■. Ittr'KiJl <>ur I'ans being cast with the bottoms down, INMnaDlnSl |. (Naess Ml * hues' dornbilil v sad uniformltv of ,‘2r tbmjme*K FA TO THOSE MADE IN P 8 Having unsurpassed facilities, W£ GUARANTEE OUR PRICES TO BE AS LOW AS ANY OFFERED. A Large Stock Always on Hand for Prompt Delivery. . Win. Kehoe <te Cos. N. B —The name " KEHOE’rt IKON WORKS,' la cast on all our Mills and Pans. -P/IMT® PEACE! | 'M fil ELASTIC SUSPENDER WITHOUT RUBBER, /fey Hi (N 'Combining; Comfort and Durability. II |/?] Kf wo " u a™% ?af^?sg , L y; c^}v: LATKD V ' 7 . Your Leaver i*vr 'i iiem.| /7/ ••nt by Post P.i.o. /;i .< ■ i<; of p ih p th* to. owmf List wi. Q U p,i t y t prno •*<** w*usi 29 V / Zv- \// oimo silk wb ISO vp* t •£/* )/& & iUO' r fatter “ 9.00 w/ \ARKSTaO!3 B’PCCo,lfl}^i.i£lS, DRESS GOODS, 27-inch Wool Filling, Plain, Colored and Fancy styles, 15c. SILKS. A Big Drive iu BLACK (IROS GRAIN at $1 and $1 35. BLANKETS. Rich Fancy Colored and 10 4 WHITE WOOL BLANKETS at $4 75; worth $7. TABLE LINEN. 25 pieces Bleached and Unbleached Damask, new patterns, 46c.; worth 65c. TOWELS. 2.000 Pure Linen, large size, TOWELS at 15c.; worth 36c. SPREADS. 11-4 WHITE SPREADS, very handsome pat terns, heavy quality, at 76c. LACE CURTAINS. Closing out 136 pieces from $1 a window up. TRADE MARK. EDIT CATION AL. For Full Information of the Above Schools call os on Annnrss HOENSTKIN & MACCAW, WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE, Macon, Ga. THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL SESSION BEOINB OCT. 5, 1887. Location beautiful. Life home like. Educa tion thorough. Health, Maimers ami Morula carefully guarded. The best, instruction In Literature. Music. Sci ence and Art. Twenty ex|ierienced officers and teachers. Low rates. Apply- for Catalogue to W. 0. BASS, President, orC. W. SMITH, Secretary. Miss Randolph’s School 1214 EUTAW PLACE. BALTIMORE. MD. fit WO or three vacancies are still open for the 1 coming Res Mon, which commences SEPT. 20th. Abdications should be made to the above address. EMORY COLLEGE^ OXFORD, GfA. HPHE INSTITUTION enters upon Its fifty flrst 1 H‘Hsion October IS, 1887, with enlarger! fac* ulty and increased facilities. For and Information write to ISAAC S. HOPKINS. President. Moreland park ILITARY ACADEMY. Near Atlanta, Ga. Chas. M. Neel, Supt. notre Same of Maryland. f'IOLLEGIATE INSTITUTE for Young Yadies V > ami Prejraratory School for Little Girls, Kmbla P. 0., three miles from Baltimore, Md. Conducted hy the Sisters of Notre Dame. Send for catalogue. SOUTHERN HOME SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. 915 and 917 N. Charles Street., Baltimore. Mrs. W. M. Carv, I Established 1843 French the Miss Oaky ( language of the School. CLOTHING. I Falk I Son INVITE INSPECTION OF THEIR STOCK OF CORRECT STYLES 1 Vte #.if cur Clothing, Furnishings and Hats WITH THE ASSURANCE THAT SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED TO ATX THEIR CUSTOMERS. DOOMS, SASH, ETC. ANDREW HANLEY, DEALER IN Doors. Sashes, Blinds. Mouldings, Etc. All of the above are Best Kiln-Dried White Pioew ALHO DEALER PC Builders' Hardware, Slate, Iron and Wooden Mantels, Grates, Stair* work, Terracotta, Sewer Pipe, Etc., Etc. Paints, Oils, Railroad, Steamboat and Mill Supplies, Glass, Putty, Etc. Lime, Plaster, Cement and Hair. Plain and Decorative Wall Paper, Frescoelng, House and Sign Painting given personal atten tion and llnished in the nest manner. AMHiI-W HANLEY. GRAIN AND II . W K LEA I) ON BEST GRADES OF Northern Cabbage. Potatoes, Onions, Apples, Turnips, Cocoanuts, LEMONB, LEMONS And all kinds of FRUITS and PRODUCE ia season. GRAIN AND HAY, Corn, Oats, Hay, Bran Eyes, Feed Meal, Grits, Meal, Crocked Corn, Peas, Etc. Get our carload pricea lfi'.i MAY ST. W. D. SIMKINS & CO, - HAY RUM. Imported Bay Eum, A FINE ARTICLE, AT STRONG'S DRUG STORE, Corner Dull uuU perry hums lan*. 5